can you reccmoned some novels fo me please( esp modern ones)

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htink i need bossykate - she likes books i do

ok have liked int he past:
secret history
Mitford biog
piers moron
that zoe heller
margaret forster
isabel allende
last king of schotland

etc

NO chick lit

NO dead babies or kids in horibel circstmancces( is we need to tlak abotu kevin terrible?)
no indian books
no farking grails

i can

The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies.

go on

oh i liekd the line of beauty

memories of my ghost brother heinz insu fenkl

strong motion - jonathan franzen
Better than the corrections - really oddly powerful

Anything by AS Byatt or Margaret Attwood
Recently loved In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon but perhaps a bit travelly?
Jonathan Coe's The Rotters Club supposed to be excellent

shudder at link what are these like
iso that hislop one good

oh abortionists dd was crap

Anne Tyler - sets virtually all her books in Baltimore - don't know about any pilots' wives!
IMO Joyce Carol Oates is ghastly - but that's only based on having to read The Falls for reading group.
Restless by William Boyd is good

I have it but haven't read it

I have it but haven't read it

si the gryff rhys JOnes book good?

lovely bones?
is ti liek time travllers shitty wife?

William Boyd The New Confessions one of the best modern novels I've read. Most of his stuff is good.

have read
am on boyd atm fabbo

Just finished reading Small Island, Andrea Levy. That was pretty good.

Sarah Waters stuff - or is that not modern enough?

What about The Time Travellers Wife, Audrey Niffenegger? That surprised me.

the lovely bones is a hard read
nothing like time traveller's wife

The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud, is fantastic
The Last Curtsey by Fiona Macarthy, about the final Season, should be in p/back by now

liekd smal island a LOT

Gryff Rhys Jones - interesting but doesn't show him in a good light - but the ex-girlfried he has for years and dumps is still apparently a friend, so perhaps he isn't so bad.

Ah, I see, don't like time travelles shitty wife! Lovely bones isn't like that but it is told from a dead person's point of view!

aha now is emepreors children good?
thast intersting
i read a review of it whe it cmae out in hard back

If you like Boyd what about Evelyn Waugh (tho not that modern). Brideshead his best but other stuff like Decline and Fall sharp and funny (tho cruel)

oh am sick of dead poepel who talk fgs
go adn die properly

although my sister lent me one abotu a btoehr who died nad haunted a grave yard( se t on new engladn cost)t hat defied epxectaions and was ogod